TRANSFER GOSSIP:
- Arsenal have no plans to reintegrate £72m club-record signing Nicolas Pepe in their squad and want to offload the 28-year-old Ivory Coast forward this summer.
- Aston Villa officials were in Spain on Tuesday hoping to close a deal for Sevilla’s transfer chief Monchi.
- Brentford have stressed they will hold firm in their valuation of Tottenham target David Raya, believed to be in the region of £40m.
- Manchester United remain interested in signing David Raya this summer, even though Tottenham are leading the race for the Brentford goalkeeper.
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- Sunderland are close to agreeing a fee of around £1.5m plus add ons for Birmingham City midfielder Jobe Bellingham.
- Manchester United will lead the race to sign France forward Kylian Mbappe, 24, from Paris St-Germain if the Premier League club is taken over by Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani.
TRANSFER GOSSIP
- Inter Milan and Chelsea are set for transfer talks this coming week as the clubs attempt to reach an agreement over the future of Romelu Lukaku.
- Manchester United‘s first transfer of the summer has been “confirmed” with Min-Jae Kim set to sign.
